Letters to the editor

Hare Krishna Gurudeva. Pamho!! AgtSP!!

Divya-drsti d.d asked me to send you this letter :

Hare Krishna Guru Majaraja, please Receive my Respectull and Humble Obeisances.

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Gurumajaraja, thank you very much for your last answer, well here in Mayapur everyday the weather is getting more and more hot, maybe in june and july it Will arrive until 47 or 48, so at night Im not sleeping well, actually Im sleeping bad, I asked about the posibility to go to Rishikesh but there isn't an ISKCON Temple there and there will be hot as well soon I can't go there, so Im looking for the posibility to go to Spain maybe to the Temple of Málaga and stay in the Temple and do any service or in any other Temple in Europe Just for 3 months maybe june, juli, August but because I have a few health problems its no so good idea but I think I could do service like garlands, cleaning help at pujary, traslation etc, maybe the association of devotees and discipline in Temple would be good for me as well. It is One big dream for me to go to Europe : the art, the arquitecture maybe in my free time I could do a few visitings of museums etc.

Then come back to India, go to Vrindavan for maybe september and october to be in kartika, then come back to Perú. 

Other option is directly come back to Cusco now, but Ill feel that mi misión of healing myself won't be acomplish if I come back to Perú now.

So I have this two posibilities, please could you give me any sugestión?  

Sorry to write you again and PUT urgent in my letter but if I travel I have to do the arrangements. 

Thank you very much for your answer. 

Your Servant :

Divya Dristi DD

Pd: of course if I would come back to Cusco now I'll do the wokshops of puppets and rent an apartment to live with matajis and continue working as a tour guide.

thank you very much Gurudeva!!!

HpS - ASA - AGTSP. Paoho. It is NEVER any problem for you to write to us. How is The Gaura-gadadhara Devi Dasi? Yes, can be tough in India, but if you happen to die there that is O.K. too. Learn to chant even in an oven. Chant in the oven and die quickly. Then come back with the body of a baker. Ha! Ha! Hare!

We will be in India, October 1-15th and Spain September 15th-30th. See our Calendar in the Kapi Dhavaja.

The main thing is the contact with the devotees. If you can contact someone in Malaga that would be nice. Just pray to Krsna and see if there are any devotees with contacts where you could stay during the hot months. Many people leave India then and them come back during September, October!

HpS - Thank you for the letter. We could not read it because we have been traveling. Please summarize and send us another letter!!!

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Please accept my humble obeisances!

I haven't written to you in a long time..

HpS - We are slow to answer this letter! AGTSP.

Sorry Maharaj. We just came back from India around 3 days ago. All of us got sick within the one week that we were there. I myself am still recovering a little bit. Pity that we got sick there so we couldn't enjoy as much. We were in Vrndavan for 3 days and before that in Ludhiana, Punjab. All of papa's relatives wanted to meet us.

HpS - Yes, people were talking about your visit.

Vrndavan is always nice. Even in 3 days, you can fall in love. I would love to spend more time there but we always have these short trips. Perhaps in the future I may go myself or with some friends and stay in India longer, do some tapasya.

In Azerbaijan, the temple is also very nice. The devotees are very welcoming and everyone is so ecstatic. The mood is quite different there. I can see. Here in Brisbane, the devotees seem dull in comparison. I mean everyone meditates differently so I can't really speak on behalf of anyone but when I saw basically the entire temple jumping up and down during Arati in Azerbaijan, I thought there is something different here. Kirtan should be most jubilant experience, no? Why just stand when you can dance? It really is so nice when you see other devotees dancing in ecstacy.

My mother's family is beyond loving. They're so sweet and kind. We had quite a nice time in Azerbaijan. We spent 3 weeks there. We even drove up to some mountains where it was snowing because all of us kids had a burning desire to see snow. It was soo fun.

Anyways, I hope your birthday/ Vyasapuja was spent nicely with LOTS of Prasadam and wonderful Kirtan. One day, we would all like to attend personally. Hopefully your health is in best condition, Maharaj. We are waiting for your visit to Australia again, please. It will be so nice. We need some awesomeness :) That has been lacking lately!

I am now high school free. Well I have been for more than 2 months now. But it doesn't end there :( I am forced to go to uni and study more. yay. Uni will start in less than a month and my course will go for 3 years - Business. I actually got accepted into a double degree with Business and Arts. But now, I really don't see the point. In fact, I don't even see the point in studying business because it all seems to be basic knowledge and common sense. But, I have to study something at least and Business seems an easy route. I hope that I can achieve something fruitful with this. And somehow dovetail it to Krsna Consciousness... I really need to get my sadhana in check. Right now, I am chanting 12 rounds a day. I'm not sure about the quality but I'm trying to improve. And the timing.... Definitely not in the early morning XD. I need to start rising early. Soon hopefully I'll be chanting 16 rounds Maharaj. Please bless this fool and give her some intelligence so that she may know what is good for her actually.

As usual Maharaj, I have some questions ;)

1. What happens to the animals that pass in Vrndavan? Are they reborn or do they go to the higher planets?
2. Also, the Brijbasis? Do they go to the same Goloka Vrndavan that ISKCON devotees go to? Becuase their love for Radharani and the Holy Dham is unmatched. Perhaps even greater than some of us, due to their simplicity and generosity.

I had so many questions in mind but that is all I can remember at present XD. Sorry for the trouble. I know I can be very annoying at times (if not always lol).

I wish your health and well-being is in the best condition always. Hopefully your stay in India is pleasant and uplifting :) GAURANGA!

Please accept my most humble obeisances.

Your most fallen servant,

Lakshmi

Hare Krishna Maharaja! Jaya Srila Prabhupada!

Please forgive my consistent inadequacies and forgetfulness.

Maharaja I felt I had really fallen off the path and hit rock bottom recently. My mentality had almost entirely shifted back to before I associated with devotees, but somehow from within my heart I began to cry a little bit for Krishna. My attraction and aspirations are returning. Due to my own foolishness I have been dragged around everywhere, usually wasting a lot of time, but somehow the "hard way" is the only way I seem to learn. I do feel that I am waking up and starting to see how I can develop my own life and be in connection with Guru and Krishna. I am writing you to touch base, let you know I am still alive and also that I miss you so much. Thank you for the numerous times you allowed me to stay in Murphreesboro with you. I will always cherish those memories. I am desperately hoping to establish sadhana in my life again. I have started to chant on beads a little bit and reading sashtra. Presently I am living with my parents on their farm in Illinois, working a little doing odd jobs and trying to save up a little money and move on from here. I have no real goal or set vision yet. It would be nice find a good sangha where I fit in nicely. One thing my parents have offered is to pay for me to go to massage school, is this an acceptable profession for Krishna devotees, or is it not favorable to touch the bodies of non-devotees?

ASA - Sounds little gross. I don't think you would like it. You are too mental. In some ways, Grhastha ashrama seems like a necessity. Of course, must pray to Krsna to send a proper partner. Then in that relationship, career is more obvious. If it takes a couple of lifetimes, don't worry. We come to this human form of life after hundreds of millions of other births. If we see we are making substantial progress at each step, then two lifetimes are SHORT. Take birth in Nabadvipa in your next life time as Nimai's puppy?

You are so special Maharaja and I wish I could be by your side, I hope someday soon we can cross paths again.

Hare Krishna

HpS - Sorry it took so long to answer this letter. If you read the Kapi Dhvaja you can see why. NGD asks about you all the time. It will tell him tonight! More news. The adventures of a wandering miscreant.

Gauranga. Humbles and Glories. We are going into our second month here in Sri Mayapur Dhama. Last week I wrote in a report with fotos on this website, about Srila Jayapataka Swamis 70th Vyasa Puja ceremony.

Now the HED has become a brain bending cyper site called ASA something. It is split into all sorts of various web sites that only a graduate of high level computer science can decipher. The report on the Vyasa Puja took some time to compose. Then I could not find any way to send it. So I hit "save" and hoped that it would somehow get through. Did you ever receive it? If not, you will probably not get this one either

HpS - We got this one. We are a little slow in answering. Our donkey is getting old!! Ja! Ja! Also another letter from you. We will look at it. Vyasapuja letters are really back logged. We explained in the Kapi Dhvaja, new name of the HED, that while traveling we could only answer Urgent letters. We meet with about 20-people for individual palaver daily while traveling: "Should I buy a cat or a motorcycle!?".

so I will not spend too much time composing. I first began as a recipient of your newsletter "The Hanumat Presak Dispatch" It was so nice to get a readable newsletter in the post. I could simply reply by mail and it worked real easy.

HpS - When I was a child there were no anwering machines. ONly rotary dila phones. If you called some one and no one was there you just hung up after a while.

My personal sadhana has come up to the basic minimum. In Kali Yuga, while other holy places are like closing lotus flowers, the gloden lotus of Sridam Mayapur is opening up to manifest the mercy of Lord Nityananda and Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu.

Panchajangri Prabhu gave class this morning and explained how bliss in following vaidhi bhakti is given when and if Krishna decides to bestow it. and that a man who is non envious and does not desire ill fortune towards anyone is happy.

Yours, Mishra Bhagavan Dasa

HpS - I hope you will have Hill Fortune, get a place to live on Govardhana for you service. We look at the other letter now. YOu can stay in the Dhama!!!

Hare Krishna Gurudev,

Please accept my humble obeisances,

All glories to Srila Prabhupada,

Being able to talk with such an exalted personality as yourself is a great benediction.

HpS - You are like Lord Siva! https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/4/4/12/

This blog is a tirtha in itself!! Your qualities are the ones of a great vaisnava!! Is so inspiring having your association, All glories to Srila Prabhupada!!

Living at Sri Govardhana, very nice, many challenges. Living with devotees, purification. Service to the vaisnavas is the safest position!!

Going to morning program three times a week. Lately little less. I guess I´m starting to have like a burn out syndrome. Such a passionate dog.

16 rounds ok, but some days we can not finish them, we cry for that. 4 p ok.

Julieta my wife she is super good companion, perfect medicine for my big big false ego. She takes care of manu, benja and i very nicely!! Thank you Krishna!!

Manu is becoming an adolescent, many thoughts, looking for a perspective in his life. I´m praying a lot for him. He went camping for three days with school, he told me that he preached to a mate, Joaquin, and he said he will become a vegetarian and a Hare Krishna. He saw a pig being slaughtered, and a picture of Hanuman in a videogame. Manu told him about our phylosophy and he will give him a mala to start doing japa!!

Benji is super sweet, very romantic boy, he plays drums and is taking theather lessons. He is very aware of dharma and super sensitive. One can realize about jiva tattva looking at kids growing up.

I feel blessed for being able to raise my family within Iskcon atmosphere. Such a great place to be!!

UG - We need more kids in ISKCON! Polygamy! Every women can have five kids and love them like anything!

Tomorrow we go to bs as to a Junta Nacional meeting. Many projects and ideas to make Iskcon argentina great again!! (Trump???).

UG - As we see it from our limited perspective Trump tempts people to Make America Great Again, but proposes it by increasing the stupid habits that made it fall down.

Thank you Gurudev for all your austerities and the great example you set for all of us!!

Your passionate fool aprentice,

Nikunja Bihari das.

HpS - Hare Krsna. Center is 16-nice rounds. 4-princples strictly. etc. etc. Some basic standard then Krsna will take care of us. He pays 5-cents for each nice maha-mantra that we chant!

Hare Krsna Maharaj,

PAMHO, AGTSP

You are the light or reflector due to whom we have our hopes , otherwise we could have surrendered to black witch easily.

ASA - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esEcwAWi6dk

Finally we have figured currently we are like foot soldier, even though our potential may be of royal counsellor.

We can not jumble up multiple principles, esp can not understand heirarchy according to TPC.

Seems in name of flexibleness we demonstrate fickleness.

With no example to look upon. I think our mind has been able to cheat us a lot.

Mother Urmila also said focus on small things and one thing at a time.

She said be kind to wife, no violence or demeaning language. For to be kind on her we need to kind on our selves.

We have tried to stay alone, but were not able to juggle multiple parameters like

Health (we did get up at 230/330/430/530) regularly but could not manage our energy level

Meal cooked manier times ourselves thanks to your guidance but goofed up on quantity/ over cooked/half cooked. Again energy level fluctuatedm we were able to ensure no onion garlic food for over a year. But can not gurantee of cook or utensil it was cooked.

Rounds somehow chanted average 16 rounds.

Career has been tough race, not able to keep up energy levels. Flawed here many times got rebuked also.

We remember your instruction its best if we can be at good position in university. Or be "sun of knowledge ".. We are not able to make harmonizable/sustainable efforts.

Reading/hearing sb/bg is just going. There is no system. It just somehow goes. Some audio class or dsb or some read.

Our head kept on spinning. Doc says its vaat rog, due to unregulated life, skipping meals (not prepared or in sufficient) .

Many tines we have let down devotee community. How can devotee do/react such things/ way.

It seems karmis are better than me.

ASA - No, real Karmi means he is only interested in himself.

I know manier times you say do what you can do . But than guilt builts up that v r coming down.

And doubt arises what's the gurantee if v come down now, we would come up again.

ASA - Jivera svarupa haya nityera Krsna Das. You nature is to play with Krsna. It will keep coming back. Make progress while the sun shines. Hide when it is dark,.

Our letter seems hay way. But thats best we can give in this moment.

I dont know what to even ask you.

May be what should be our minorities

To, all merciful and strict person.

A foot soldier

HpS - Good letter. We answer your letter and Candra-mukhi Deci Dasi's immediately because we see you in FMP etc. Honestly you seem to be doing O.K. You are struggling with rather deep currents, Karma, and any progress you make is eternal. I have the same problems and Mother Urmila Devi Dasi is right, make progress NOW. Jayananda Das: Don't feel you have to do a great service. Just done ANY service now. That is the best way out. Fix a vow of a certain number of rounds for a certain time eg. 11/day until next Ekadasi and DO IT.

Hare Krsna!!!!! You are on the right path. Keep shooting as the best you can and things will get more and more clear.